UNSPSC 50335459: Dried organic williams pears

The variety of organic pears known as organic williams pears that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50335459 Dried organic williams pears (Commodity) covers dried fruit products procured by state and local school nutrition programs and correctional facilities to supply cafeteria operations and food-service distribution networks. State and local governments are buying dried fruits as components of broader food-service contracts serving students and institutional populations; the code represents a single line item within much larger school nutrition and institutional food procurement vehicles. Issuing bodies include school districts (Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, Bridgeport Board of Education in Connecticut), state agencies administering institutional food programs (State of Georgia, Texas Department of Criminal Justice through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts), and municipal purchasing departments acting as food-service procurement agents for school nutrition centers. School districts and state correctional systems dominate recent activity under this code tier, with solicitations structured as IFBs and ITBs requiring firm fixed pricing, USDA grade compliance, and Buy American provisions mandating minimum domestic content thresholds for processed products.

Recent opportunities span Georgia, Connecticut, and Texas. Hancock County Schools (Georgia) issued IFB #SN002-2027 on June 10, 2026, with a June 26, 2026 response date and delivery to three school sites through June 30, 2027; the solicitation encompassed over 200 fresh and specialty produce line items but did not explicitly itemize dried pears in publicly available summaries. The City of Bridgeport, Connecticut Department of Public Purchases posted BNB053266 on June 2, 2026, due June 26, 2026, covering 115 commodity line items for the Board of Education Nutrition Center with firm-fixed pricing through June 30, 2027. The State of Georgia issued PE55645NONST2026000000009 on May 15, 2026, with a June 22, 2026 response deadline for food, supplies, and kitchen products with full scope in an attached solicitation document. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division, issued IFB 304T-26-300CF on May 4, 2026 (extended via Addendum No. 2 from April 21 to May 4, 2026), covering approximately 382 food-service line items across five geographic areas with contract term through August 31, 2027, plus two optional one-year renewals. A separate TDCJ procurement, Bid No. IW236532, specifically targeted whole pitted dried prunes (60–70 count, U.S. Grade B, 1,400-box minimum order) for the Corpus Christi location with a February 20, 2026 opening date.